No Fire For Bobby Jon

His Loss At Fire Challenge Left His Torch Without Flame

(CBS)  Thursday night, on "Survivor: Palau," the decimated Ulong tribe lost yet another immunity challenge. For those of you keeping score, that makes eight in a row.

For Bobby Jon Drinkard and Stephenie LaGrossa, it meant a face-off in the game's first ever one-on-one Tribal Council immunity challenge.

Bobby Jon was responsible in his tribe for keeping the fire going, and yet in the immunity challenge, he was given matches and lost it. What happened?

"I pretty much lost it, fair and square," Bobby Jon tells The Early Show co-anchor Rene Syler. "I got a little distracted for a second. I remember, I stopped and looked at hers. And it just takes a second. When I did that, I lost a little."

During the reward challenge it seemed as if the team of two was going to make it for a moment, but the puzzle challenge left Ulong on the losing side and puzzled as well.

"I think we must have had a black cat walk around on the beach or something," Bobby Jon says. "We just sure didn't have any luck at all. When it came to puzzles, there again, we couldn't seem to muster ourselves together and do it."

It wasn't that he and Stephenie could not work together, but that Coby Archa from Koror is simply good at putting puzzles together, Bobby Jon says, "And Gregg, too. But, yeah, they got the puzzle and solved it, and they did it."

Koror also was in better shape, Bobby Jon notes. Without the numbers, he and Stephenie had to work harder to survive.

"I think it's pretty tough," he says. "The whole time there, I felt like I was trying to provide along with everyone else. Then, when people kind of start getting cut out of your tribe, you start having to do a lot more. So it does become a little more tough than normal."

Bobby Jon also was getting on Stephenie's nerves, She complained that he was becoming a caveman, and said they had very little in common.

"I think I can improve on my camp hygiene," Bobby Jon admits.

Now that he is out of the game, he tells Syler he has been pursuing a career in modeing in Los Angeles.

"I've been out there for about two years now," he says. "It's going all right. I am still waiting tables so I haven't hit it like I need to yet, but I do have a degree in journalism and I'm still probably going to use it."